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GROGHET HOOK.

1m 572,809.". Patented Dec. 8, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST KNIPPENBERG, OF FEHTERSHAUSEN, GERMANY.

CROCHET-HOQK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 572,809, dated December8, 1896.

Application filed November 29, 1895. Serial No. 570,554- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST KNIPPENBERG, manufacturer, a subject of theDuke of Sam- Coburg-Gotha, residing at Fehtershausen, in the Duchy ofSaXe-Ooburg-Gotha and German Empire, have invented new and usefulImprovements in Crochet-Hooks, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in crochet-hooks, and has for itsobj ectto facilitate crochet-working by fixing the position of the hookof the implement relatively to the position of the fingers.

It is well known that one of the chief difficulties in learningcrochet-working, and one which continually requires the strictestattention and necessitates straining the eyes, is caused by the placingof the crochet-hook handle (which is usually round) relatively to themesh or stitch, that is to say, the position of the hook relatively tothe mesh or stitch.

Now my inyention has for its object to in sure the proper position ofthe hook in crochetworking, without any attention, automatically bymeans of the shape of the handle, thereby facilitating the labor ofcrochet-working and rendering unnecessary the straining of the eyesotherwise required; also to diminish by simple means the difliculties inlearning crochet-working. These objects are effected according to myinvention by arranging or forming on the crochet-hook handle a fiatsurface or enlargement situated at right angles to the hook, so that acareful attention to the position of the hook is no longer necessary,because in using the crochet-hook the hook assumes automatically theproper position for working, as the surfaces place themselves againstthe fingers.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings illustrates in plan a crochet-hookwith the enlarged surface. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same.

The handle or shank a of the crochet-hook may be of smooth or ofdiversified cross-sectional form and be provided with or Without awooden handle. It is formed at the place where the finger-tips aresituated in crochetworking with an enlargement or flat portion b,.whichallows of the fingers being placed thereon. This flattened or enlargedportion 19 is situated at right angles to the hook 0, so

that the place A B in which the hook is situated is at right angles tothe shank a. The surface a may be of flat or convex or rounded shape.

Having now particularly described and. ascertained the nature of myinvention, what I claim, and wish to protect by Letters Patent, 1s-

1. An integral crochet-hook, comprising a shank, a hook at the endthereof, and a fiattened portion 19 therein, as and for the purposedescribed.

2. An article of manufacture, comprising an integral crochet-hook ofwire having a hook, a shank, and a flattened portion bin the said shank.

In testimony whereof I'have hereunto set my hand in presence of twosubscribing wit nesses.

AUGUST KNIPPENBERG.

Witnesses:

FANNIE MOORE, MARIE Loan.

